My german ones are the worst. I can't imagine what those from a big trading partner would be like. I probably had replaced one OEM on my 90 (bought new, so I know the history) with an aftermarket german boot, and had that on there a cuple of years before I sold it. No problems. But my 83 is so old that the OEM boots have all been replaced, several times now, with Lobro of lo-quality. My daughter's 91 looks to have the thicker, softer OEMs with no problems. Jim On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Mike Riley <mkriley@fuse.net> wrote: > leather is a no go. petroleum products rot it. > the answer is obvious get OEM ones, not ones from our great trading partner > from across the sea. > I am still running all 4 originals I never have had a original split > without gross failure of the cv joint. > I wonder if failures are connected to the use of over-sized tires that the > VW engineers were too stupid to put on? don't reinvent the wheel here.<G> > mike > |
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